Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] was [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The roofs of the tents and pavilions collected water until the weigh t burst the material and everyone inside was drenched . |
| 2 | Frank Kelly thanked us for our efforts and I somehow was volunteered again to make the reply . |
| 3 | I once was engaged to conduct a concert in Mannheim and the pianist who had been engaged was Frederic Lamond . |
| 4 | I always was attacked on the grounds that the world I wrote about did n't exist and it 's only in the last five to ten years here in Ireland , that my work is seen to be actually true . |
| 5 | The second I saw was an Alan Ayckbourn , considering that I was only six at the time and I did n't understand some of it I still was enthralled with the acting and enjoyed it almost as equally enough as the panto . |
| 6 | I had a spell off instruction and became the assistant to the chief ground instructor and , in that capacity , I also was instructed to carry out preliminary inspections of crashes that happened at Kinloss during that period , and a most unpleasant task this was . |
| 7 | But I also was injured 'cos her friends were hittin' me . |
| 8 | And it got , in the end , actually , if I was , if I had to do something that was urgent or I had to go somewhere I used to have to say to her something like , you know , erm oh I better get on , I got a lot to do this morning , or I 'm goi I 've to be shopping and be back in time to cook Jim 's dinner or something like that cos he 's starting , oh I 've got ta have his dinner ready at twelve before he goes to work and if I really was pushed otherwise she would have come in every day . |
| 9 | If I became part of his fantasy landscape a certain amount of security , great pleasure even , was possible , at the cost of feeling split and unknowable afterwards and unsure whether I as I felt I really was had experienced anything . |
| 10 | She wore a dark two-piece suit and a pert little hat with a feather that set it off well and I immediately was drawn to her . |
| 11 | I then was sent a letter telling me that I 'd passed this exam , I then had what 's known as a medical to check that I was okay , there was no , I had no faults or injuries or health problems . |
| 12 | Someone else was blown out by the cool-warm gale , tottering into her as the car howled away . |
| 13 | Unfortunately Wisden at that time did not put symbols against the name of the wicketkeeper to tell if someone else was roped in to keep . |
| 14 | You know when yours when was swollen er |
| 15 | I actually was consulted in an orderly way . |
| 16 | I went back to the mother and baby home , for another almost two years , and from there that was I think I said at the beginning , how I actually was introduced to Flats , and it was actually living at the mother and baby home , doing far more work with girls |
| 17 | She tried to reason with them , to point out that I too was injured . |
| 18 | But she was frank and inaccessible as a Modigliani nude ; and I was back in the green glow of the glade — except that this time I too was observed . |
| 19 | I did n't at the time know where to , but when I had only about two months to go I too was posted , to Scampton near Lincoln , and who was the first person I saw when I booked into the Waaf Guard Room ? |
| 20 | I now have 4 years ' teaching experience although I too was thrown in at the deep end — my only advantage over others was that I had studied languages myself and knew how difficult it could be . |
| 21 | I too was taken to the top of the Worcester Beacon on a donkey as a three year old in 1939 , along with my little gran , ‘ to save her legs ’ . |
| 22 | But it was then , it was from er shop floor that I that the , when the call went out for volunteers for , for the armed forces which initially was called Land Defence Volunteers , L D V , which eventually was broken down to look , duck and vanish army . |
| 23 | This left Williams alone to face the attempted murder charge , which eventually was tried in Belfast on 27th and 28th June 1973 . |
| 24 | He painted this picture of his father-in-law : ‘ Over his kindred he held a wary and chary care , which bountifully was expressed when occasion so required , reputing himself not only principal of the family but a general father to them all … as for frank , well ordered and continual hospitality he outwent all show of competence ; spare but discreet of speech : better conceiving than delivering ; equally stout and kind , not upon lightness of humour , but upon soundness of judgement : inclined to commiseration , ready to relieve . ’ |
| 25 | A few groups of migrants , notably among Germans and Scandinavians , who went to the Great Lakes area of the United States , or the earlier Scots settlers in Canada , exchanged a poor agricultural milieu for a better one : only 10 per cent of the foreign immigrants in the United States in 1880 were in agriculture , mostly not as farmers ‘ possibly ’ , as an observer claimed ‘ on account of the capital required to purchase and stock a farm ’ , ’ the equipment of which alone was reckoned to cost $900 in the early 1870s . |
| 26 | The proportion of absentee canons at each is a good indicator of royal exploitation , which obviously was directed at the better endowed prebends . |
| 27 | He wrote ‘ Michael Ramsey 's Monthly Message ’ for the Cambridgeshire Liberal Magazine , which thereafter was scattered among the villagers . |
| 28 | On the vast tracts of Lincoln Heath , stretching north and south of the city for some seventy miles , Arthur Young found ‘ a large range which formerly was covered with heath , gorse , etc. , yielding in fact little or no produce , converted by enclosure to profitable arable farms … and a very extensive country all studded with new farmhouses , offices , and every appearance of thriving industry … ’ |
| 29 | Bile sodium ( Na + ) , potassium ( K + ) were measured potentiometric by a multichannel analyser ( Technicon SMAC analyser , Tarrytown , USA ) , which also was used for measurements of albumin and bilirubin concentrations . |
| 30 | There is one tablet from Knossos which lists several deities including Potnia and Enualios , a name which later was used as an alternative to Ares , the Greek war-god ; it also has the first part of Poseidon 's name , ‘ po-se-da- ’ , but the end is broken off . |